Charlize Theron Quotes (86 Quotes)


    My character is fictional, but she is based on all the women who fought the sexual harassment case, and everything you see in the film actually happened.

    I feel so fortunate that I am in a relationship with a wonderful man. I find it incredibly unfair that because of our sexual preference, we have the rights that we have, and that, because of someone else's sexual preference, they don't have those same rights.


    Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

    If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.


    It's our job as filmmakers to reflect the world right now, and this year has proven that you can make these movies and make them not taste like medicine.

    because thanks to women like her, I get to work and live in a very safe environment. I respect women who come from harsher landscapes, where survival is much harder than in cities, because they don't wallow in self-pity. They have to survive, so they get up and move on.

    I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

    a very unique girl, a free spirit. I see all the beauty and childlike innocence in life.

    No matter how sexual this character is and how comfortable she is with her sexuality, we obviously knew that we couldn't go as far with the outfits as Peter had designed for her. We still tried to stay true to that element and the knowledge that she's very independent and very comfortable within her skin. She's not shy. She's a very strong person. When you play with those elements of sexuality, it makes it really fun.

    This is very surreal for me because two years ago, I stood right here and won my Oscar for 'Monster.

    I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

    She's just kind of popped her head back into her shell, but I never thought of her as anything other than just a very normal girl who was, I thought, quite pretty.

    I had big dreams when I came here, but this is an incredibly amazing gift ... two cherries on top of the cake.

    This case was only settled seven years ago, and you go, 'How dare you sit back as a young female and think the feminist movement happened in the '60s, some bras were burned and now everything is fine'


    We didn't want them to watch the film and say, 'Oh, God, that's me. Now everybody knows that about me.' We wanted them to say, 'That reflects my life, but it's not me.'

    People said, 'Oh, you're doing another ugly movie,' ... I said, 'No, I'm doing another film about real people, and it's not about ugly vs. anything.' It's about searching for that constant truth, and I don't think I'll be able to sleep at night if I know I didn't search for that truth and implement it. I don't know how else to do it as an actor.

    And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

    And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.

    we were concerned we were going to sound too broad, and maybe get laughs in the wrong way. We tried to fine-tune it a little, staying kind of neutral. Part of the transformation in any character is a new way of speaking. Also the physical look. Once again I worked with Toni G, who did my makeup for 'Monster.'

    Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

    You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.

    It took me awhile, to be honest, because this was so extremely foreign to me. I had never done anything in the genre and I didn't feel like an expert. So, it took me a while to sit with Karyn and understand how I was going to service this. I very rarely jump into something and go, 'Oh, my God, I know I have to do this.' And, that's usually a good sign for me.

    At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

    This year has proven to make those kind of films you don't need to make them feel like medicine, you can make them powerful and still entertaining.

    And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

    I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

    So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

    There's only so much you can do with the material you're given, ... A lot of films are very male-oriented, but this is a male-dominated industry. Let's not lie. I don't care what character I play as long as it's an honest exploration.

    And the process is very physical, which is something I always wanted to do, since I came from a ballet background and I really like telling stories with my body. That was the challenge... . I don't want to keep repeating myself.

    Not to sound on a pedestal about women, but the reality is, we bring a completely different element to it just because we are women,

    I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

    The thing that's great about this story is it's not just about the first class action sexual harassment case, ... It's really also about this community and about people just trying to survive.

    After Monster, when I started telling people about this story, some people said 'Oh, you're doing another ugly film'.

    When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

    I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

    I couldn't change how people thought of me, ... I had to believe someone would come along and believe in me enough to give me a chance, and that's what happened.

    I think we all have a well we draw from, and there is a healthy way to approach it and a non-healthy way, ... I feel extremely healthy. I don't feel damaged. I'm not haunted. I come from a community where you just don't do that. There's no choice. You move on.

    You can't control those things. When they happen, it's great, but if you put too much emphasis on that, you lose track of what you're supposed to be doing and the work itself.


    Well, because I think that there is a comfort level that you have in a relationship that I think is sometimes hard for people to get around.

    The mine was kind of this very mysterious thing for all of the women, ... In there, they realized pretty quickly that they were taking jobs where there weren't jobs to be taken. And that these guys were going to try and break them down so that they would just leave.

    If people, critics respond to the film there, it starts a nice little wave of chat, which for a movie like 'North Country' is really important. It's one of those films that travels by word of mouth.

    I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

    He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then there was Ben - he was my first dry hump.

    I was very scared going in, but also really excited about doing a film using my body again. I like that she never spoke. This character, she was very quiet, but she was telling her story through her body. It's a very physical role.

    I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.


    Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.


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